VIII MARRIAGE IN THE UNDERWORLD
IX BRAINS IN THE UNDERWORLD
X PLAY IN THE UNDERWORLD
XI ON THE VERGE OF THE UNDERWORLD
XII IN PRISONS OFT
XIII UNEMPLOYED AND UNEMPLOYABLE
XIV SUGGESTIONS.

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LONDON'S UNDERWORLD



CHAPTER I

MY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES

The odds and ends of humanity, so plentiful in London's great
city, have for many years largely constituted my circle of
friends and acquaintances.

They are strange people, for each of them is, or was, possessed
of some dominating vice, passion, whim or weakness which made him
incapable of fulfilling the ordinary duties of respectable
citizenship.

They had all descended from the Upper World, to live out strange
lives, or die early deaths in the mysterious but all pervading
world below the line.